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What are some of the best ways to advertise my business OUTSIDE of online social media?

7083 votes

Aina Lia, Aff (Malaysia) 12/13/2015 8:42 am

Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 19
There are so many ways to advertise and advertising definitely can be done offline, and online being the most popular. Again, your financial standing and the willingness to spend play the major role in deciding which way you want to advertise.

Some ideas for offline and ‘outside’ the social media medium for advertisement would be:

1) Via communication: be it by letters, e-mail marketing or distribution of flyers and your business card – make sure you include your URL
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What is the best way to get my new PSAs up to speed with SFI without overwhelming them?

7072 votes

Aina Lia, Aff (Malaysia) 7/1/2015 6:32 pm

Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 19
Every Sponsor will try their best to assist their PSAs to get started correctly. They would apply every possible and available ways either from SFI's free tools or their own way of ensuring active PSAs, not to forget CSAs.

1) Open widely line of communication
2) Rewards for achievers
3) Show your gratitude for job well done
4) Reassignment of PSAs to downlines - to ensure their success & indirectly, yours.
http://news.sfimg.com/2015/06/11/powerful-new-psa-reassignment-feature/
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Should a person go for the rank of Team Leader if they don't yet have a team?

7051 votes

Aina Lia, Aff (Malaysia) 6/27/2015 5:41 am

Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 19
Hi Waleed,

Always there are pros and cons. You will see different views submitted here. The most common will be stick to the rules i.e. stay EA/AE2 if you don't have active downlines/PSAs! When you don't have a team to lead, you are not Leader? Yes, for those with financial limitation, this is the only choice, stay EA2.

To me, a Leader will do anything to make things happen. As an EA/EA2, you will see only small commission payment, everyone will blame SFI for that.
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I'm an ECA wanting to sell my products internationally. How do I determine how much to charge for shipping to other countries that is fair to both me and my customers?

7003 votes

Aina Lia, Aff (Malaysia) 8/23/2014 7:16 am

Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 19
Well, first of all, customers are happy to see this words. Free Shipping.
In order for you to attract more buyers, consolidate your shipping cost to your products.
This would be a better choice.

You might be able to check them online, as most companies has gone 'global' nowadays.
Contact them via e-mail and proceed with your enquiry on shipping cost, by providing the measurement and weight of your products and destination country. You can enquire for case to case or compile
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How do I promote the Signing Bonus and the opportunity to increase it to my new affiliates who have just received the $20 Signing Bonus?

6905 votes

Aina Lia, Aff (Malaysia) 12/11/2015 9:23 am

Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 19
The newly introduced Signing Bonuses is very good as far as keeping new sign-ups to work their SFI business. But, as a Sponsor, it is our duties to make an effort to explain to our new sign-ups or those inactive ones how this Signing Bonuses (SB) works. Explain to them in a simple way to make them understand the following:

1) To qualify for the USD20 bonus
A PSA just need to sign up.

2) To increase the SB to USD40
A PSAs must become a Silver Fast
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With the new Team Leader qualification requirement and the new Signing Bonuses, how will this change your business strategies?

6765 votes

Aina Lia, Aff (Malaysia) 12/26/2015 4:57 am

Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 19
Personally, my take for the Signing Bonuses (SB) is, it will not make much impact where new sign-up is concerned. This is not a one-time payment but in a form of percentage (3%) paid together with monthly commission. But, the new Team Leader’s qualification does make a big impact on our business with SFI.

1) Signing Bonuses
I said it is not significant because of the payment structure. Let’s say a newbie signed up and immediately received that $20 SB. He stays Affiliate
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I keep losing people that were active previously. What do I do?

6748 votes

Aina Lia, Aff (Malaysia) 8/14/2014 1:07 pm

Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 19
Really a common problem to all.
We will not be able to stop them from quitting. They might be trying out to see if they could make a quick bucks, within a few months. Generous Sponsor might have given them PSAs, TCredits as a rewards to motivate. What happen after that? They could not sustain without their Sponsor's assistance and decided to leave.

In most cases, financially unstable would be the reason for them to opt out. Affiliates from poor nations could not sustain the
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How do you turn affiliates' EMPLOYEE mentality...to a BUSINESS OWNER mentality?

6627 votes

Aina Lia, Aff (Malaysia) 8/14/2014 12:03 pm

Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 19
How do you turn affiliates' EMPLOYEE mentality...to a BUSINESS OWNER mentality?

Do your team members, or even you, still have an employee mentality when it comes to running your business? The employee mentality is a hard habit to break.

So how do you get around that and help your team members start acting like business owners and not employees?

The answer is, nurture the business owner mentality within your team. Coupled with good leadership skills, lead by examples,
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What is the best way to motivate members of my downline to become Team Leaders and not stay EAs?

6626 votes

Aina Lia, Aff (Malaysia) 9/9/2014 12:18 pm

Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 19
Two of the common issues in network marketing are ‘retention’ and ‘motivation’
In other words, once you’ve built a good downline, how you keep them motivated to stay and do their work? Success in SFI is based on interdependent relationships. Your profits directly tied to your downline’s performance. Likewise, your downline depends on you to teach the how to duplicate your success.

This is the key.
• Depending on their experience level, survey and find out what
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Which is better for a fairly new ECA? Limit shipping to my region while my business grows or ship internationally from the start?

6591 votes

Aina Lia, Aff (Malaysia) 9/13/2014 8:48 am

Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 19
Pro and cons for both.
1) To expand your business you need international buyers for your ECA store.
2) By limiting to your region, you are limiting your target audience and sales potentials, and
3) Domestic success of your products doesn't ultimately mean global success.

If you are considering international market, You might want to consider this;
1) Packaging optimisation in regards to your shipment - this is to minimize the shipping cost and safety of your products.
2)
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